Police said a 28-year-old man was killed after his vehicle collided with a stalled tractor trailer overnight on the Van Wyck Expressway.
The vehicle’s driver was subsequently detained and charged with DWI.
Friday at 11 p.m., a fatal collision occurred on a Queens highway just south of Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, according to officials.
The 28-year-old was found “unconscious and unresponsive with bodily damage” in the front passenger seat of a 2019 Honda Accord after police responded to a 911 call.
EMS pronounced the 28-year-old deceased at the site, and the 31-year-old driver was sent to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital “with symptoms of discomfort,” according to police.
The vehicle’s driver was apprehended and charged with DWI.
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The 31-year-old driver was detained after the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad discovered the Honda Accord was going in the right lane of northbound Van Wyck when the driver drove to the right shoulder and rear-ended a damaged 1999 Western Star tractor trailer.
Queens resident Luis Angamarca was accused with driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration.
08 of 1%, according to police.
The male truck driver, aged 42, was also transported to New York-Presbyterian Queens in stable condition, according to authorities.
The NYPD stated that the victim’s name is pending family notification.
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